Real World’ and ‘Celebrity Rehab’ alum Joey Kovar dead at 29

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Another “Celebrity Rehab” graduate has died of apparent substance abuse. On Friday, the body of “Real World: Hollywood” cast member Joey Kovar was found at a friend’s home just outside Chicago. According to TMZ, a female friend discovered the 29-year-old’s body, which had blood coming out of his ears and nose. Friends and family also tell the site that they believe drugs are to blame.

Kovar is the third person who has appeared on Dr. Drew’s VH1 show to die in the past 18 months. In March 2011, former Alice in Chains ba#sist Mike Starr overdosed on prescription pills at a home in Utah, and just this past June, Rodney King was found drowned in his pool after a night of drinking and smoking marijuana. Kovar was on the third season of “Celebrity Rehab” in 2009 for his addiction to cocaine and ecstasy.

His stint on the “Real World” was brief, but memorable. Halfway through the 2008 season, he entered rehab following scary outbursts directed at his castmates. “I’m sorry, you guys,” a sobbing Kovar told them when he announced he would be leaving the show. “This is so hard, this is so embarra#sing. I’m sorry, you guys, I don’t mean to act like this … I don’t mean to be a bad person.” As his understanding roomies hugged him, he told them about a moment the previous year when he had done so much cocaine and drank so much alcohol, that he thought he was “ready to die.” But then four months before he joined the MTV show, he insisted he had quit it all. Sadly, once he moved to Hollywood, “Boom, here comes the monster again,” he said through tears.

A look at Kovar’s Twitter feed shows a guy who was hopeful about his future. On Wednesday, the last day he was alive, he sent out a string of positive tweets. The final one: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

one of my favourite real worlds

Wild !!..

Addictive personalities got it bad man..

damn RIP. i remember him from those EPs. i gues the celeb rehab show aint workin too well then

I think that is why Dr. Drew final stopped it because it was not working.

/\More like it prolly just wasn't getting ratings.. lol

And dam.. he was a cool dude when he was sober..

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Wasn't this the real world when Greg was winning and Will the Sellout Coon was piling up L's [pic]

Yeah I just read about it. I remember watching his season and watching him on Celeb Rehab. [pic] The dude was so conflicted. RIP.

Once you're an addict, you're an addict for LIFE. If he wasn't in an active rehab program and had a sponsor, the fault lies with him not Dr.Drew or the show. That got him started but he clearly didn't follow through and relapsed. Addicts need to put in the work one day at a time.

You guys are uninformed. The show didn't "stop." They have a show called "Rehab" I believe with NON-celebrities (regular people) and that one's coming next.

Damn man, prob my fav real season ever... Dude def had some inner demons rip

Joey was dope :'(

R.I.P. BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHER

wow....he was a cool dude from what i remember

Remembered dude from the Real World & was rooting for him to recover from addiction. R.I.P

Wow. I remember him too. :(

it looks like he's on shrooms in that pic.. anyways RIP

ya that was the the best season in a long time..cuz real world was dope..then it was terrible

then that season came around and was dope

..RIP

daaaaamn.... R.I.P.

thats the nicca that punched that tree they had in the yard rite?

his family is disputing the drug claim

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dude was alpha as !!, man. i love the episode where he gets totally wasted and parties 'til like 6am.



Greg (trying to get some sleep) : "Joey... I need you to give me that bottle"

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